The Opelousas courier., 1887-10-08

the party. and to surrender to a convention
of their representatives the powers and fun
ions temporarily vested in our committee.
Our first note occasloned the necessity Tor
q further correspondence, all OF which Is
here inserted without a~bridgment:
New ORLEANS, Sept. 49,, 1884.
Hon. w. II. Rogers, Chairman Committee on Res
olutions of the late Congressional ConVen-
ton Of the "Raetfm Democracy
My Dear Judge-The executive committee
of the First Congressional District have aps.
pointed q sHb-committeeesh os eonm IIf}s dba o1
Sturees, F. Dudenhefer,, J.: 7. Peterson and
myself, who are instructed to request a con-
ference with the representatives OF your or
ganization, to the end that the endeavor
able means, to adjust existing. differences
and TO strengthen and harmOnlze party &C
ton" The members of this committee, feel
that you have been misinformed as to their
motives and purposes, and that acting upon
them before The public in a false light. They
ask rs a matter of Justice, that you accord
them an opportunity to be heard.
They propose to convince you that at no
that of ascertaining, by g free expression OF
their preference at the ballot-box, the choice
q the Democracy of the district.
They believe with Mr.. Hunt that the choice
of a Representative in Congress should be
made directly by the people," and agree
With u committee that, in accordance
with Democratic principles and the time
honored usages Of the party, the people
should be permitted to choose for themselves.
To this end they are prepared to accept any
ascertaining the public preference which Is
fair and practicable.
Having no information as to the appoint
ment of any executive committee by Presl-
dent Kernoehan, | address myself to you,
assuring you that our committee Will agree
to any reasonable proposition calculated to
solve the Spresent unfoItunate misunder-
standing, and request Su to arrange a
meeting.
Our committee will be ready 10 receive
yours at this Office, or meet them elsewhere,
as you NAV prefer, on Saturday at noon.
Lionel ADAMS, Chairman.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20, 1884.
Hon. Lionel Adams, Chairman:
Dear Sir-Your open letter, dated Sent. 10,
1884, addressed to the Hon. W. Fl. Rogers,
chairman of committee on resolutions OF the
late Congressional conventiSM of the Reform
Democracy, has been handed me on my re-
turn to the city and submitted to the eXeou-
tive committee, which was appointed by me
am instructed to answer
You state that your committee request q
conference with the representatives, or our
organization, to the end that every honora-
| BILE means may be employed to adjust exist
| ing differences and to harmonic party &C
ton.
You state further that we have been misin,
formed as to your motives n purposes ana
that acting upon unfounded apprehenslonS
we have placed you before the public n a
false light.
You ask an opportunity to be heard.
You propose to convince us that You, atno
time, have entertained any purpose save that
of ascertaining, by a free expression OF their
preference at the ballot box, the choice OF the
Democracy OF the district: or,n,i+too has
deemed it proper to adopt, the form OF an
open letter in the ostenslble effort to mar
monte difficulties within the. party. II the
| seem to imply, be sincerely desired. we fear
this will not be readily accomplished by dis
cussion. 80
your committee is authorized to speak IN
this connection, or that the method o. a COM
paratively few persons, marking out a course
| or determining a conclusion for the people
against which they have SO repeatedly e1-
pressed themselves. can in n manner, as to
its baneful influences, be cured, even by @
meeting with @ representative committee OF
another and living organization.
this correspondence, that authority is with
YOU, you will, on further consideration, not
fail to perceive that such a result cannot be
accom- 2plished in the manner proposed IN
your Mtter of the 18th instant.
We remain persuaded that we are thor
ougl,ly advised on political matters and ar
Engagements in the First Congressional Dis
G1ct, anu we DetEeNe IuaE THE puDIlGs hllA
Ourselves, hold it useless and a vain thing al
together, and therefore undesirable to JOIN
in private discussions, provoked at so late a
season., and on an occasion when your com
mittee has formally delivered over its powers
to a meeting in convention fixed by your
selves for the Goth instant. -.
The Democracy of the First Congressional
District has. already spoken. .The, conyentlon
has been held. 1t was first in. the State to
indorse Cleveland and Hendricks, and by It's
firm and prompt action IN this direction II
has aroused public interest and preserved to
the party our best and truest citizens and
| saved Louisiana to The Democratic party.
The convention named by unanlmous. vote
the Hon. Carleton Hunt as the candidate.
He is well known to BET sterling Democrat.
He has just served in the Forty-eighth Con-
| gress, and in a trying season. the interests of
Louisiana with entire fidelity.
The address of the reform Democratic
party. contains a fnll declsratlon OF their
| principles and purposes. They are not mis-
informed az to facts and have acted upon no
unfounded ap~pFehenslops. The position
they assumed was adopted only after anxious
thorough infotmations, and under a fun ap-
probation of the gravity of the situation.
We Eave appealed to an intelligent public
opinion. and to a free. vote and a far count
at the coming election in November.
II our cause is just. the people, who are
the source of all political power in this
country. will approve it,. and we will sue
Sec II L We Set h 4 ts;'t n m hE the nc I'VE must III + pc
1CttO IA ~ ~ bAS SSAO va SNS
We will leave nothing undone that ought
70 bedoRSsin order to secure the success of
the Democratic party, of which We count our
selves devoted members.
Respectfully for the committee,
HENRY P. K~ERNoCHAN.
Hon, w. H. Rodgers, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Reform Democracy of the
First Congressional District.
Dear Sir-Permit me, through your favor,
to acknowledge receipt Of reply to my com
the Hon. w. p. Kernochan, on behalf of
OH committee.
The Congressional Executive Committee of
the Democratic party in the First District in
struct mt 20 convey their expressions of re-
greet at having given to their portion OF the
correspondence a publicity of which your
committee disapproye. The form of q n
.'open letter. was adopted as an earnest of
their great anxiety to preserve by all honor
able means the party unity.
The purpose was to secure a conference,
not. to provoke a discussion. They sought to
indicate how much they deprecate the exist
ence OF differences and how July disposed
they are 10 make much greater concessions
in the interest OF reconciliation than your
committee nave a right reasonably to expect.
Their ch1eT solicitude was and is to organize
a convention which viii represent in the full
est sense the constituency on whose behalf
/ the nomination OF a candidate for election to
the Congress OF the United States is to be
ma de.
Therefore. it is that they deem it iniu-
dicious TO indulge iii recrimination, or to
say more in reply 10 your animadversions
upon the methods of the regular party or
ganization. which your committee is pleased
to consider as composed of comparatively
few persons. . than that to these methods
and persons the Hon. Mr., Hunt is indebted
for the nomination, by virtue of which he
now occupies a seat in the Federal House of
Representatives.
They desire to appeal to your sense Of JUS
tice. Far from questioning your devotion to
the Democratic party, they adiure you, in
the name of that fealty, not to endanger It's
success by opposing their efforts to conciliate.
to determine conclusions for the people. .
Their reply is an invitation to you to join
them in the endeayor indisputablv to aBcer-
tain the will of thai nennle. EAGER to remnYa